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A non-supersymmetric inverse seesaw model of neutrino mass based on the $A^{\prime}_5$ modular symmetry is presented. This framework provides a combined explanation for neutrino masses, mixing, and the cosmic baryon asymmetry through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 Xianshuo Zhang , Yakefu Reyimuaji

The type-I seesaw model with two-zero textures of the Majorana mass matrix for the right-handed neutrinos $M^{}_{\rm R}$ provides a highly predictive framework for neutrino mass generation and baryon asymmetry of the Universe via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Xin-Tong Ma , Ding-Hui Xu , Zhen-hua Zhao

We revisit the thermal leptogenesis scenario in the type-I seesaw framework featuring three heavy Majorana neutrinos with a hierarchical mass spectrum. We focus on low energy observables, specifically the lightest neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-21 Alessandro Granelli , Koichi Hamaguchi , Maura E. Ramirez-Quezada , Kengo Shimada , Juntaro Wada , Tatsuya Yokoyama

We propose two new simple lepton flavor models in the framework of the $S_4$ flavor symmetry. The neutrino mass matrices, which are given by two complex parameters, lead to the inverted mass hierarchy. The charged lepton mass matrix has the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 Yusuke Shimizu , Morimitsu Tanimoto

We propose a flavour model based on an $A_4$ symmetry combined with a type-II seesaw mechanism for neutrino mass generation. The resulting neutrino mass matrix obeys a sum rule that, together with the measured mass-squared differences,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Salvador Centelles Chuliá , Ranjeet Kumar

We study the range of the elements of the neutrino mass matrix m_nu in the charged lepton basis. Neutrino-less double beta decay is sensitive to the ee element of m_nu. We then analyze the phenomenological implications of single texture…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-24 A. Merle , W. Rodejohann

We study all possible texture zeros in the Majorana neutrino mass matrix which are allowed from neutrino oscillation as well as cosmology data when the charged lepton mass matrix is assumed to take the diagonal form. In case of one-zero…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Manikanta Borah , Debasish Borah , Mrinal Kumar Das

With the recent observation of nonzero \theta_{13}, five neutrino oscillation parameters are now known. By imposing four zeros in the Yukawa coupling matrix of the type I seesaw model, the number of parameters in the neutrino mass matrix is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-26 Jiajun Liao , D. Marfatia , K. Whisnant

The Type I, II and hybrid (I+II) seesaw mechanism, which explain why neutrinos are especially light, are consequences of the left-right symmetric model (LRSM). They can be classified by the ranges of parameters of LRSM. We show that a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-04 M. J. Luo , Q. Y. Liu

For Majorana or Dirac neutrinos, using Fritzsch-like texture 4 zero mass matrices with parallel texture structures for the charged leptons and the Dirac neutrino mass matrix (M_{\nu D}), detailed predictions for cases pertaining to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gulsheen Ahuja , Sanjeev Kumar , Monika Randhawa , Manmohan Gupta , S. Dev

We investigate the texture structures of lepton mass matrices with four (five) non-zero elements in the charged lepton mass matrix and three (four) vanishing cofactors in the neutrino mass matrix. Using weak basis transformations, all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-28 S. Dev , Desh Raj , Radha Raman Gautam

Recent experiments indicate a departure from the exact Tri-Bimaximal mixing by measuring definitive non-zero value of $\theta_{13}$. Within the framework of type I seesaw mechanism, we reconstruct the triangular Dirac neutrino mass matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-06 H. B. Benaoum

The minimal seesaw framework, embroiling the Dirac neutrino mass matrix $ M_D $ and the Majorana neutrino mass matrix $ M_R $, is quite successful to explain the current global-fit results of neutrino oscillation data. In this context, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-04 Newton Nath

In the framework of non-holomorphic modular invariance approach, we have systematically constructed all minimal lepton models based on the non-holomorphic $A^{\prime}_{5}$ modular symmetry from a bottom-up approach. In these models, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Cai-Chang Li , Gui-Jun Ding

We discuss the seesaw mechanism which includes the minimum number of parameters for successful leptogenesis and three neutrino oscillations in the spirit of Occam's razor. We show that models with two right-handed neutrinos with two texture…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Keisuke Harigaya , Masahiro Ibe , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

For type I seesaw and in the basis where the charged lepton and heavy right-handed neutrino mass matrices are real and diagonal, four has been shown to be the maximum number of zeros allowed in the neutrino Yukawa coupling matrix $Y_\nu$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-10 Sandhya Choubey , Werner Rodejohann , Probir Roy

We propose a lepton seesaw model to get the same mass-origin of charged-leptons and neutrinos introducing a modular $A_4$ symmetry. In this scenario, the mass matrix of charged-leptons is induced via seesaw-like mechanism while the mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Takaaki Nomura , Hiroshi Okada

In this work we propose new five textures zeros for the mass matrices in the lepton sector in order to predict values for the neutrino masses. In our approach we go beyond the Standard Model by assuming Dirac masses for the neutrinos,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Richard H. Benavides , Yithsbey Giraldo , Luis Muñoz , William A. Ponce , Eduardo Rojas

We investigate models of charged lepton and neutrino masses and lepton mixing based on broken modular symmetry. The matter fields in these models are assumed to transform in irreducible representations of the finite modular group $\Gamma_4…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 P. P. Novichkov , J. T. Penedo , S. T. Petcov , A. V. Titov

Using the seesaw mechanism, we construct a model for the light-neutrino Majorana mass matrix which yields trimaximal lepton mixing together with maximal CP violation and maximal atmospheric-neutrino mixing. We demonstrate that, in our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 W. Grimus , L. Lavoura